[LINK] Time Man of the Year (Assange?)
Paul Brooks
pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au
Wed Dec 8 01:31:47 AEDT 2010
On 5/12/2010 3:59 PM, Tom Koltai wrote:
> On the front cover of Time next week,
>
> TIME magazine's December 13 edition features Julian Assange on the cover
> and a number of WikiLeaks-related articles, including Massimo
> Calabresi's cover story, WikiLeaks' War on Secrecy: Truth's Consequences
> <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034276,00.html> , and an
> additional feature by Fareed Zakaria: WikiLeaks Shows the Skills of U.S.
> Diplomats
> <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034284,00.html> .
>
>
> Will Julian win Man of the year ?
>
> Currently with 150K votes he is running at slot number 2.
>
> Polling Results.
>
>
> http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_20290
> 36_2029037,00.html #ixzz17D31KteF
> <http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029
> 036_2029037,00.html%20#ixzz17D31KteF>
>
>
> Vote for Julian:
>
> http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_20287
> 33,00.html
>
>
> A most awesome result if the number one man on Interpols most wanted
> list, a traitor in the USA and an unapproved Aussie whistleblower is
> acclaimed by the Time readers as being more relevant and important to
> the world than:
>
>
> The Top 25 as at Sunday 15:55.
> Position, Name, Average Rating, Total votes
> 1 ,Recep Tayyip Erdogan ,84 ,188878
> 2 ,Julian Assange ,88 ,158815
> 3 ,Lady Gaga ,76 ,126097
> 4 ,Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert ,83 , 64186
> 5 ,Glenn Beck ,35 , 65210
> 6 ,Barack Obama ,61 , 20168
> 7 ,Steve Jobs ,65 , 18222
> 8 ,The Unemployed American ,69 , 14587
> 9 ,The Chilean Miners ,52 , 19207
> 10 ,Sarah Palin ,34 , 21732
> 11 ,Mark Zuckerberg ,53 , 12161
> 12 ,Liu Xiaobo ,68 , 8742
> 13 ,David Cameron ,35 , 13396
> 14 ,Hu Jintao ,50 , 8268
> 15 ,Robert Gates ,42 , 9155
> 16 ,Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf ,50 , 6934
> 17 ,Nancy Pelosi ,38 , 9107
> 18 ,Craig Venter ,57 , 5791
> 19 ,Arne Duncan ,30 , 9140
> 20 ,Elizabeth Warren, Mary Schapiro and Sheila Bair ,48 , 5254
> 21 ,David and Charles Koch ,35 , 6415
> 22 ,LeBron James ,23 , 9739
> 23 ,Jonathan Franzen ,23 , 8350
> 24 ,Hamid Karzai ,30 , 5956
> 25 ,Tony Hayward ,23 , 7946
>
> Julian is scoring higher than the other candidates but has less total
> votes.
>
> In fact a result like that would force Governments to recognise that the
> citizens want and need real transparency.
By Tuesday night/Wednesday morning Sydney-time, Assange is well in the lead....
Rank Name Avg. Rating Total Votes
1 Julian Assange 90 251202
2 Recep Tayyip Erdogan 82 217954
3 Lady Gaga 73 134913
4 Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert 82 70038
5 Glenn Beck 31 77483
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